PT-2018-5155 · Unknown · Html-Janitor

Published 2018-06-04 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-0928

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions html-janitor versions prior to 2.0.4

Description The issue allows for the bypass of sanitization due to user control of the sanitized variable, leading to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This can occur when arbitrary HTML passes the sanitization process, posing a risk if user-controlled input is passed to the clean function.

Recommendations Upgrade to version 2.0.4 or later.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-547

CWE-642

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-0928

GHSA-FX46-WHRJ-73V5

Affected Products

Html-Janitor

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-0928 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-fx46-whrj-73v5 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-0928 · Security Note
• https://github.com/guardian/html-janitor/issues/35 · Note
• https://hackerone.com/reports/308158 · Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/569 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fx46-whrj-73v5 · Note